Sunday, November 21, 2010

November 21

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1. 164 B.C. Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. Ignition Rebuilding 20 Years of Dischord
2. 1620 Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11O.S.). Brian Wilson Roll Plymouth Rock Smile
3. 1877 Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound. Saturday Looks Good to Me Record Store Love Will Find You
4. 1905  Albert Einstein's paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc². Eskmo Become Matter Soon, For You Eskmo
5. 1953 The British Natural History Museum announces that the "Piltdown Manskull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax. The A-Team All I See is Skulls Sewer Rats
6. N/A World Hello Day (Unofficial) Zero Zero Hello, How Are You? A.M. Gold

(Historical facts about November 20 are from Wikipedia.)

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